Put Your Big Toe In The Milk Of Human Kindness chords

Elvis Costello

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         A       F#7    Bm7     E     A 
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness 
         A    C#m      F#7             Bm     E 
Have you ever seen the like of this mankind? 
     A      F#7     Bm7      E      A        C#m    F#7 
If a boy or girl is cute, we simply shoot to starry heights 
Bm7            E 
Any maybe, any might 

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    A      F#7  Bm7   E          A       F#7    Bm7      E 
But always so capricious, in the face of wonder we're suspicious 
    A         C#m       F#7 
And though we came from frogs and fishes 
    Bm7 
Our taste is far from fine 
         Bm7            E             A 
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness 

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         A       F#7    Bm7     E     A        F#7  Bm7  E 
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness 
         A    C#m      F#7             Bm    E 
Have you ever seen the like of this mankind? 
    A        F#7 Bm7           E       A        C#m    F#7 
You take the Himalayas, you'll take Manhattan's finest mountain top 
      B7                                E 
He wouldn't change his whiskey sour for any bitter crop 

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    A      F#7   Bm7 E       A      F#7              Bm7    E 
But always so contrary, from father Christmas to the Virgin Mary 
    A          C#m     F#7 
And though the moments of belief 
    Bm7                         C#m              F#7 
Fly by before you find if you'd just unhand your mind 
         Bm7            E             A 
Put your big toe in the milk of human kindness